By Michael
Connelly
It is the 2012 Christmas season, yet
many of my fellow Americans are not feeling the usual joy that has historically
come with this time of year when we not only celebrate the birth of Christ, but
celebrate a time to spend with friends and family. Instead, I sense there is
almost a feeling of despair and desperation in the air.
Christmas itself and our right to
celebrate it are under attack by those who want to strip America of our
traditions and our values. In addition, millions of Americans are unemployed,
and even many of those who do have jobs face an uncertain future. Regardless of
what happens with the so-called “fiscal cliff” the hidden taxes in Obamacare
will kick in on January 1, 2013 and people will see their take home pay
decrease while their insurance premiums and cost of health care take a huge
jump.
At the same time, thousands of new
onerous and unnecessary regulations are being imposed on American businesses by
the Obama administration that are going to result in increases in the prices of
everything from food to energy and the loss of even more jobs. Small businesses
are in the cross hairs of the Obama campaign to bring the American economy to
its knees and everyone is afraid except for those who are looking forward to
more “free stuff” from our new “Lord and Savior” as actor Jamie Foxx refers to
our President.
The New Year will also see massive
cuts to our military even as the Obama foreign policy of coddling our enemies
is leading to rapid growth of Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other
radical Islamic groups who have vowed to destroy Western civilization. In fact,
the Obama administration’s latest move to “protect” America in a politically
correct manner is have the military issue a new 75 page manual to the members
of the military prohibiting our troops from saying anything that might be
offensive to the Taliban or other Muslim extremists.
Many Americans believe that we have
lost our moral compass and committed national suicide by reelecting a President
who will continue to take away our basic freedoms. That is clearly the goal of
our Dictator in Chief, but all is not lost yet. There are still many true
Americans out there and we need to take heart from some of our past Christmases
when all seemed lost.
In December 1777 General George
Washington led a bedraggled and apparently thoroughly beaten Continental Army
into its winter camp in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. There were only 12,000 men
left in the army at that point and many left bloody footprints in the snow as they
marched since they had no shoes. They also had little food, ammunition, and
adequate clothing or blankets. That Christmas of 1777 was spent trying to
construct enough shelters to keep them from freezing to death.
The outcome seemed inevitable; the promise
of a new nation, free from British oppression, that had been born just
seventeen months earlier by the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was
not to be. As the winter got worse 2500 members of the meager army succumbed to
various diseases, yet the rest continued to drill and train and they refused to
give up. They emerged in the spring as a fighting force that would always be
outnumbered and out gunned, yet they would fight for five more years and
against all odds ultimately prevail.
Now fast forward to another Christmas
season in Europe in 1944. The Nazis had launched a surprise offensive in the
Ardennes in Belgium, overrun and virtually destroyed several American infantry
divisions and trapped the 101st Airborne Division in the small town
of Bastogne. The town was where several key roads merged and if it fell there
was nothing to stop the Germans from dividing the Allied armies and prolonging
WW II indefinitely.
The American
paratroopers were outnumbered and running out of food, ammunition, and medical
supplies, yet they refused to surrender and they stopped the Nazi offensive.
When the Germans failed to take Bastogne they tried to bypass it shortly after
Christmas and they found a gap in the U.S. lines. SS troops surged through it
at night and after a fierce fight in the village of Sadzot overran Company B of
the 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion killing, wounding or capturing
half of the company and taking all of the 4.2 mortars.
The surviving Mortarmen,
including my father 1st LT Roy Connelly, regrouped and with the help
of a small contingent of stranded paratroopers and combat engineers they took
back the town and their mortars. Then they held off the Nazi armored battalion
for three days until relieved. There are countless stories like this throughout
our history and they should give us comfort and hope.
We can’t give up
and the people in Washington D.C. who think that they have a green light to
subjugate us should remember that the United States is not a democracy and was
never meant to be. Our founding fathers knew that a democracy could become a
vehicle for a small majority of people to vote to deny basic human rights to
everyone else.
In a Republic
this can’t happen because the rights of all individuals are protected by law
and in our case that Law is the Constitution. If any effort is made to take
away those rights than we have a right and a duty to resist, and that is what
we must do at every level. We must fight tyranny in our school boards, our city
councils, state legislatures, in congress, and in the courts. Whether it is the
tyranny of UN Agenda 21, gun control, denying us our religious freedom, or
invading our privacy we can and will resist.
Christmas has
always been a time of hope and this year must be no different. We must start off
the New Year by redoubling our effort to take back our country. God Bless
America and Merry Christmas.
Michael Connelly
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